Firms not ready for cy­ber at­tacks

Only about half of busi­nesses around the world say they are de­vel­op­ing de­fences against cy­ber at­tacks, PwC has said in a new re­port. The re­port lays out 10 ways for small and large firms to fight off at­tacks. “Ex­plo­sive growth in tech­nol­ogy and data over the next decade will oblit­er­ate bar­ri­ers be­tween cy­ber, phys­i­cal, and vir­tual worlds, ratch­et­ing up the com­plex­ity and scale of cy­ber and pri­vacy risk man­age­ment world­wide,” ac­cord­ing to its Dig­i­tal Trust In­sights re­port.